Cotton Production by State

The US produces 4.2B bu of cotton across 13 states and 7.7M acres. Texas leads with 22.8% of production.

4.2B bu

Total Production

7.7M acres

Total Acreage

Producing States

Top Cotton Producing States

#	State	Production	Acreage	% of US Total
1	Texas	958.2M bu	3.5M acres	22.8%
2	Georgia	860.3M bu	1.1M acres	20.5%
3	Arkansas	462.9M bu	505K acres	11.0%
4	Mississippi	351.6M bu	395K acres	8.4%
5	Missouri	348.6M bu	330K acres	8.3%
6	North Carolina	279.9M bu	370K acres	6.7%
7	Alabama	276.8M bu	375K acres	6.6%
8	Tennessee	233.3M bu	260K acres	5.5%
9	South Carolina	155.9M bu	205K acres	3.7%
10	Louisiana	79.5M bu	115K acres	1.9%
11	Oklahoma	77.3M bu	310K acres	1.8%
12	Virginia	70.1M bu	80K acres	1.7%
13	Kansas	50.4M bu	88K acres	1.2%

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Frequently Asked Questions

Texas is the top cotton producer, accounting for 22.8% of US production with 958.2M bu.

The US produces 4.2B bu of cotton across 7.7M acres in 13 states.

Sources: USDA NASS

Production data from USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service surveys.

this entity is one of the data points covered by this site’s U.S. crop production, acreage, and farm income dataset. The detail above comes directly from the USDA NASS Quick Stats database; the context that follows situates the headline numbers against the broader distribution across U.S. crops and states.

Every number on this page links back to the USDA NASS Quick Stats database; the methodology page describes the inputs, refresh cadence, and known limitations of the underlying data product.

For readers using this page as a decision input, the related-entity pages elsewhere on the site provide the comparison set. The most useful comparison for this entity is typically a peer within U.S. crops and states with similar size, similar exposure, or similar geography — not the national-level summary alone.

Source: USDA NASS Quick Stats, 2026.